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Phoenix Shot Tower
The Phoenix Shot Tower, also known as the Old Baltimore Shot Tower, is a red brick shot tower, tall, located near the downtown, Jonestown (also known later as Old Town), and Little Italy communities of East Baltimore, in Maryland. When it was completed in 1828 it was the tallest structure in the United States. The tower was originally known as the "Phoenix Shot Tower", then the "Merchants' Shot Tower", and now is also sometimes called the "Old Baltimore Shot Tower".〔 It was designated a National Historic Landmark on November 11, 1971.〔
The Shot Tower lends its name to the nearby Shot Tower/Market Place station on the Baltimore Metro subway system's northeast line.
== Design==
The tower was built by Jacob Wolfe〔("An Engineer's Guide to Baltimore: Phoenix Shot Tower" ), accessed May 6, 2007 〕 using bricks manufactured by the Burns and Russell Company of Baltimore. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, a Roman Catholic lay leader and wealthiest man in America at that time, laid its cornerstone.
The circular brick structure's walls are thick from the bottom to about up; then they narrow in stages of each, until reaching a thickness of at the top.〔
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